Squatting on a prime slice of Swansea real estate, the Civic Centre is impossible to miss and hard not to judge. Some people are unfazed by its mass of concrete and warm to its bunker-like appearance; others are less complimentary.
On the face of it, the Civic Centre might not seem a likely building to gain extra protection, but a group called the Twentieth Century Society asked Welsh Government heritage body Cadw to have it listed. Cadw has now received three requests to list the seafront building since 2016, and has turned them all down.
A Cadw spokeswoman said it thoroughly assessed the Twentieth Century Society's request but said the Civic Centre didn't meet the criteria as a building of special architectural or historic interest at a national level. "Nevertheless, it is a building with considerable local impact and significance, which could continue to be a landmark in Swansea," she said.
